Eskimo-pie-vending machine



A. PROBST ESKIMO PIE VENDING MACHINE May 10, 1927. 1,627,8

Filed Jan. 2, 1928 5 I E IO 2 III 8 2s I w f/M] 3% l6 I5 I] 20.. i l

I8 3 I 2L l I INVBNTUR a M PM Patented May 10, 1927.

.UNITED STATES ALBERT rnons'r, or LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

' ESKIMO-PIE-VENDING MACHINE. 7

Application filed January Hy invention relates to improvements in vending machines, and the objects of my improvement are, first, to provide a vending machine containing means for keeping the vended articles cool; second, to provide an operative vending machine of large capacity; and third, to provide special control mechanism.

I accomplish these objects by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings,

7 in which Figure I is an elevation of the entire vending machine,

Fig. 11 is a horizontal section of the revolving cylinders, and

Fig. III is a perspective sectional view of the operating mechanism.

Mounted upon a stationary base 1 is a ver- "tical rod 3, upon which revolves a casing 2 containing several compartments. Immediately surrounding the shaft 3 is a cylindrical ice chamber 4. Concentric with the wall of the ice chamber and outside it is a second cylinder 5. connected by a plurality of partitions 6 which divide the space between them into a plurality of compartments or magazines 7. The magazines contain Eskimo pies, ice cream bricks 8, or other objects to be kept cool or vended.

Between the cylinder and the outside casing 2 is a compartment 9 which may be used in any one of several ways, merely as a dead air space for insulation, or for a second ice chamber, or it may be created a vacuum in the manner of a thermos bottle.

Glass windows 10 in the cylinder 5 and others 11 in the casing 2 permit the purchaser to see which magazines are empty. The floor 12 of the central ice chamber is penetrated by the central shaft 3 and rotates round it, the weight of the rotating upper part of the machine being carried by the sleeve 13 upon the shaft 3.

A projection 14 upon the rod 15 prevents the withdrawal of the handle 16-unless the rotatable part of the machine is in the proper position. When one of the magazines 7, however, is directly over the platform 17, a notch 18 in the bottom of the casing 2 permits the projection to pass through.

As the handle is pulled, the elevated platform 17 slips from beneath the pile of packages, and the pile drops upon the lower portion of the slide 18. Upon the release of the handle the spring 19 draws the slide back The two cylinders are 2, 1926. v Seri'al No. 78,867.

into its original position. i As the slide returns the bottom package is carried off on the lower portion of the slide 18. he package above, being unable to follow on account of interference of the partition 4: drops upon the platform 17 which is elevated above the portion 18 by about half the thickness of the package.

A second pulling of the handle draws the slide 18 from beneath the package upon it, and the package drops into the delivery chute 29 since its return is prevented by the new package upon the low platform 17so low that the first package strikes against the end of the second-and cannot get under it.

A projection 20 of the slide strikes against the edge of a table 21 and prevents the withdrawal of the handle until a coin is dropped into the slot 22 and falls upon the table 21. The weight of the coin acting against the spring 23 causes the table to drop upon the support 24:. The obstruction to the projection 20 is now' removed and it sweeps over the table brushing off the coin as it goes. Upon the return of the slide, the table springs back into its original position and again obstructs movement until a new coin is dropped into the slot.

The platform 17 is below the level of the fixed floor 25, and so when a package drops upon it, without, however, being able to drop a distance equal to its thickness,the rotary movement of the upper part of the mechanism is checked until the given ma azine has been emptied. The case 2 may then be rotated 1n either direction until the bottom package of a new magazine falls upon the platform 17.

I claim:

1. A vendingmachine having in combination a prismatic casing, a heat insulating chamber within said casing, two concentric cylinders within said insulating chamber, a plurality of magazines for holding articles to be vended between said concentric cylinders, a central compartment within the inner of said cylinders, a central shaft upon which said prismatic casing may rotate, and an ejector means beneath said magazines.

2. In a vending machine, an ejector slide having a horizontal shelf, an elevated horizontal platform, a vertical plate connecting said shelf and said platform, a second vertical plate at the opposite end of said platform, and a rod attached to said platform at the end opposite to said horizontal shelf.

3. A-vending machine having in combination a central Vertical shaft, an inner cylindrical casing rotating upon said shaft, an ice compartment between said central shaft and said inner casing, a middle casing surrounding said inner casing, partitions join ing said inner and middle casings, Windows in said middle casing, an external easing surrounding said middle casing, a heat insulation compartment between said middle and 1 In testimony whereof, I hereby aflix my 15 signature.

ALBERT PROBST. 

